01-01-2025 BEIJING: Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to steal unclassified documents from United States Treasury workstations earlier this month, the US Treasury Department has said. The department said on Monday that the hackers were able to compromise a third-party cybersecurity service provider and gain access to the documents in what …

01-01-2025 United States President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed the continued leadership of Mike Johnson in the House of Representatives, in an apparent attempt to limit Republican discord in the New Year. In a post to his online platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump appealed to his Make America Great Again …

01-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s new rulers have installed some foreign fighters including Uyghurs, a Jordanian and a Turk in the country’s armed forces as Damascus tries to shape a patchwork of rebel groups into a professional military, two Syrian sources said. The move to give official roles, including senior ones, to …

01-01-2025 BERLIN: Air taxi start-up Volocopter GmbH filed for insolvency proceedings on Monday, citing its inability to raise new funds to maintain regular operations. The Mercedes-Benz, opens new tab and Honeywell, opens new tab-backed company plans to continue business operations during the insolvency proceedings while seeking additional funding. “Despite recent …

01-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral will take place on 9 January at the Washington National Cathedral, part of a national day of mourning for the longest-lived US president. Walter Mondale, who served as Carter’s vice-president, had intended to give the eulogy for his former boss, but he …

01-01-2025 GAZA STRIP: Sila was less than three weeks old when her mother Nariman realised she wasn’t moving. “I woke up in the morning and told my husband that the baby hadn’t stirred for a while. He uncovered her face and found her blue, biting her tongue, with blood coming …

01-01-2025 NEW DELHI: India has launched its first space docking mission on an Indian-made rocket, in an attempt to become the fourth country to achieve the advanced technological feat. The mission, called Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX), lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh state at 16:30 …

Officials recovered 30 two-wheelers, altogether worth Rs 46 lakh from them Hyderabad, Dec.31 (Shoukat-PMI): On December 30 evening, Chaitanyapuri police officers and staff nabbed two automobile offenders, who committed theft of 30 Motorcycles in the Limits of Rachakonda, Cyberabad, Hyderabad city, Vikarabad, Nizamabad and Sanga Reddy. When both the accused came …

Hyderabad, Dec.31 (PMI): Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will chair the Cabinet at the Secretariat at 4 PM on January 4. The Cabinet is expected to discuss several key issues, including Rythu Bharosa scheme, new ration cards, SC categorisation, BC reservations, establishment of Yadagirigutta Temple Board, agriculture mechanisation, VRO system …

31-12-2024 ANKARA/ SANLIURFA: Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The announcement comes amid increased hopes for an end to a decades-long insurgency waged by the outlawed Kurdistan …